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By J« a, NORTON", M,D, 



nrX the autumn of '54, in North Street, Bristol, an old 

 -^ -jackdaw's nest was found upon lighting a fire, the 

 sticks and an old bi'oken egg coming down the chimney. 



While waiting for you to join me in a stroll from Bristol 

 Bridge I make my next extract. During our stroll we shall 

 m.ake notes of birds and other animals that have been ob- 

 served, but which are not given in sequence of time. 



In the dim grey of a frosty Sunday morning in November, 

 I heard a whizz past lociy ear. Thinking that some one had 

 thrown a cocoa-nut husk at me, I turned, but saw no one. 

 The idea was caused by my seeing a brown body roll down 

 the buttress on the west side of the bridge; on looking 

 again, two or three feathers were seen floating in the air, 

 and a brown bird in the water, also two birds in full flight 

 up High Street. I thought at first that it was a sparrow- 

 hawk in the water and pigeons escaping, but a further look 

 and subsequent capture showed the bird to be a partridge 

 (it was caught after swimming under the Bridge), and a 

 man coming up the street told me he had flushed three 

 birds from a doorway in Victoria Street, 



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